The Infectious Dose Podcast

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PhD Virologist turned science writer. She/her. Fighting science misinformation with a podcast/blog. Infectiousdose.com My views are my own & do not represent any organization

Photo of morning by the lake in Fort Parker State park in TX.
Front page of Semmelweis' Open Letter to all professors of obstetrics 1862 via Wikimedia Commons
The view out my backdoor during the storm happening when I made the post. It shows rain clinging to the screen, and the yard and gray sky beyond.
Picture looking through my back door screen to my backyard during a storm…with raindrops on the screen, a patio umbrella in the foreground and patio furniture under the umbrella and the small yard beyond.
Rainclouds and a curtain of rain moving across a valley with farmlands and wheat fields.
Screenshot of comment with 5 stars that says, "Excellent article. I particularly appreciated the "precision and care in the wording", clearly shaped by the expertise of a brilliant virologist. I’ll be sharing it widely. Thank you."
Logo of Field Notes the Infectiou Dose Newsletter. BAckground looks like a page of an old weathered notebook with the words, "Field Notes" scrawled across the front. The infectious Dose logo is below that and between them is a tagline, "What stayed with me after the episode"
Logo for Field Notes, the new newsletter from infectious Dose. it looks like a page from an old journal with the infectious dose lolgo at the bottom and the words Field notes scrawled across the page.
Image of a plague Doctor. Paul Fürst, engraving (coloured), c. 1656, of a plague doctor of Marseilles (introduced as 'Dr Beaky of Rome').
A dark gothic image of a raven perched on a glowing smart-home orb against a cracked black background. The text reads: “The Raven, reimagined for the age of science denial."
Infectious Dose podcast logo of microphone surrounded by pathogens and sound waves, has been Halloweenified with a scary jack-o-lantern atop the microphone and a crescent moon and bats with a black background and oranges rather than the normal white background with blues and multicolored pathogens.